Trust
Comparative Perspectives
Published on 2. March 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
392 pages
978-90-04-21238-1 (ISBN)
Description
Trust, as Simmel noted, is a hypothesis regarding future behavior that is certain enough to serve as a basis for practical conduct. To trust another person (or collectivity or institution) is intermediate between knowledge and ignorance. Simmel was one of many social scientists (e.g., Tonnies, Durkheim, Parsons) who have contended that trust is one of the most important integrative forces within society. Modernization and its attendant social isolation, in the face of massive global changes, underscore the need to reexamine trust in all its multivariate and multidisciplinary character. This anthology presents twelve studies of trust. Some are conceptual, theoretical analyses, while others use historical data on societies, national surveys or cross-national comparative studies to test hypotheses.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
All those interested in sociology, psychology, economics, as well as political science and philosophy.
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Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-21238-1 (9789004212381)
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Persons
Masamichi Sasaki, Ph.D. (1980), Sociology, Princeton University; Professor of Sociology, Chuo University, Tokyo; Past President of International Institute of Sociology 1997-2001; Founding Editor of Comparative Sociology. Recent Publications: (ed.) Elites: New Comparative Perspectives (Brill, 2008) and (ed.) New Frontiers in Comparative Sociology (Brill, 2009).
Robert M. Marsh, Ph.D. (1959), Sociology, Columbia University, Professor of Sociology at Brown University. His earlier books have included Comparative Sociology: A Codification of Cross-Societal Analysis (Harcourt, Brace and World 1967) and The Great Transformation: Social Change in Taipei, Taiwan Since the 1960s (Sharpe 1996).
Robert M. Marsh, Ph.D. (1959), Sociology, Columbia University, Professor of Sociology at Brown University. His earlier books have included Comparative Sociology: A Codification of Cross-Societal Analysis (Harcourt, Brace and World 1967) and The Great Transformation: Social Change in Taipei, Taiwan Since the 1960s (Sharpe 1996).
Content
List of Contributors
Introduction Masamichi Sasaki and Robert M. Marsh
The Dynamics of Trust: Communication, Action and Third Parties Bart Nooteboom
Structures of Trust: Britain and Russia Compared Geoffrey Hosking
Trust, Diversity, and Segregation in the United States and the United Kingdom Eric M. Uslaner
Distrust and Mistrust in a High Trust Environment Morten Frederiksen
Trusting Others-How Parents Shape the Generalized Trust of Their Children Dietlind Stolle and Laura Nishikawa
Pragmatic Trust in a World of Strangers: Trustworthy Actions Andrew J. Weigert
Trust, Tolerance and the Challenge of Difference Adam B. Seligman
Trust: acceptance of, precaution against and cause of vulnerability Misztal
Trust Working in Interpersonal Relationships: A Comparative Cultural Perspective with a Focus on East Asian Culture Gyuseog Han and Sang-Chin Choi
Self at the Heart of Trust: The Global Relevance of an Interactionist: Understanding of Trust as a Form of Association
Linda R. Weber
Reconstruction of Trust on a Cultural Manifold: Sense of Trust in Longitudinal and Cross-national Surveys of National Character Ryozo Yoshino
Cross-National Studies of Trust among Seven Nations Masamichi Sasaki
Index
Introduction Masamichi Sasaki and Robert M. Marsh
The Dynamics of Trust: Communication, Action and Third Parties Bart Nooteboom
Structures of Trust: Britain and Russia Compared Geoffrey Hosking
Trust, Diversity, and Segregation in the United States and the United Kingdom Eric M. Uslaner
Distrust and Mistrust in a High Trust Environment Morten Frederiksen
Trusting Others-How Parents Shape the Generalized Trust of Their Children Dietlind Stolle and Laura Nishikawa
Pragmatic Trust in a World of Strangers: Trustworthy Actions Andrew J. Weigert
Trust, Tolerance and the Challenge of Difference Adam B. Seligman
Trust: acceptance of, precaution against and cause of vulnerability Misztal
Trust Working in Interpersonal Relationships: A Comparative Cultural Perspective with a Focus on East Asian Culture Gyuseog Han and Sang-Chin Choi
Self at the Heart of Trust: The Global Relevance of an Interactionist: Understanding of Trust as a Form of Association
Linda R. Weber
Reconstruction of Trust on a Cultural Manifold: Sense of Trust in Longitudinal and Cross-national Surveys of National Character Ryozo Yoshino
Cross-National Studies of Trust among Seven Nations Masamichi Sasaki
Index